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adjective

Attractive adj.

Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies.

Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." "Attractive eyes." "Flowers of a livid yellow, or fleshy color, are most attractive to flies."

noun

Attractive n. That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement. "Speaks nothing but attractives and invitation."

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Etymology of 'Attractive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Attractive" Quotes from Famous Books

... representation of him—out of compliment to the Dowager Queen of Wuertemberg, his daughter. The ceiling of this Library is undoubtedly too low for its length. But the circular extremity has something in it exceedingly attractive, and inviting to study. ...

— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... Quartilla corresponded to that which is followed by our ladies of the Palace Royal. This Palace Royal is a sort of Babylon, with this difference; that the former prostitute themselves all the year round, and that they are not quite so attractive as the Chaldean beauties. For the rest, one of the incontestable facts of ancient history is this prostitution of the women of Babylon in honor of Venus, and I cannot understand why Voltaire refused to believe it, since religions have always been responsible ...

— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter

... absurd;" and she looked at him wistfully, and spoke sadly. "I'm not so attractive as you think me. I may be the same to your eyes—but not to others. It's very doubtful if anybody would want me now—except those who knew me when ...

— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell

... to Nekhludoff, stopped, and looked up at him from under her brows. Her black hair was arranged in ringlets over her forehead in the same way as it had been two days ago; her face, though unhealthy and puffy, was attractive, and looked perfectly calm, only the glittering black eyes glanced strangely from ...

— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy

... Mr. Skimpole, seeing them for the first time, should he so unreserved and should lay himself out to be so exquisitely agreeable. They (and especially Richard) were naturally pleased, for similar reasons, and considered it no common privilege to be so freely confided in by such an attractive man. The more we listened, the more gaily Mr. Skimpole talked. And what with his fine hilarious manner and his engaging candour and his genial way of lightly tossing his own weaknesses about, as if he had said, "I am a child, you know! You are designing people compared with me" (he really made ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

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